OTRODUCTIOK
 

I.
 

H E time has now come when the
English Printer and the English
Publisher must take their due places
in the national estimation. Hitherto
the Author has had it all his own
way. While we have readily put
the men of Thought and Imagination
—such as Sidney, Spenser, Hooker,
Shakespeare, or Jonson by the side
of the men of Politics and State—
such as Burghley, Hunsdon,
Walsingham, Raleigh, or Davi¬
son; we have not so readily put
the men of Business, exercising
perhaps the most important me¬
chanical art of peace of that time
—such as John Cawood, John Day, Henry Denham, Henry Binneman, or
Christopher Barker; by the side of the men of Action or War,—such as
Anthony Jenkinson, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Martin
Probisher, or the Earl of Cumberland.

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